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This chapter addresses how the work of homeland security gets done. It identifies the key roles and categories of individual innovators who were able to stretch or step outside normal boundaries to suggest and teach and learn, and explores the tension between the desire for local autonomy and flexibility and the pressures to codify practice and institutionalize relationships. The chapter analyzes the role of affiliations, relationships, and community channels in practice, and considers the role of temporary, task-based organization as a means of resisting the institutionalization of community...

This chapter addresses how the work of homeland security gets done. It identifies the key roles and categories of individual innovators who were able to stretch or step outside normal boundaries to suggest and teach and learn, and explores the tension between the desire for local autonomy and flexibility and the pressures to codify practice and institutionalize relationships. The chapter analyzes the role of affiliations, relationships, and community channels in practice, and considers the role of temporary, task-based organization as a means of resisting the institutionalization of community relationships.